Your name is GW Bush.
I've been waiting months for him to start shifting the focus of the war into minimizing the political fallout of partial/complete military withdrawal. It is going to happen, hell they simple don't have the numbers to maintain the Surge that he deems so vital after April 2008, and they have expended all their options for keeping troops in rotation. Even if he manages to coast until Jan 2009 it is sure as sh'it going to be not long afterwards when the boys start coming home.
Yet he keeps publicly airing the same rhetoric that has been pushing for the last wildly unsuccessful four years.
I guess I shouldn't be suprised, he was in fact inept enough to give Osama bin Laden the very thing he wanted when he orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, a ground war in Dar el Islam between Islamic guerillas and the American Armed forces. A war that has gone pretty well for Al-qaeda in that it has accomplished all its objectives (rise in radicalism, loss of americas support from allies, no clear decisive wins for the US etc). Still it is frustrating.
He is right about one thing though, the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq will precipitate a disaster of epic proportions. To bad that his bumbling handling of the whole affair has made it all but impossible to avoid. He gave them what he wanted in the first place and refused to deviate from his course creating a situation where the end result is all but unavoidable. Rather than using his remaining days in office to minimize the situation so that a withdrawal wouldn't be such a disaster he keeps on plowing along right into Al-qaeda's hands.
/rant off
Edited, Aug 31st 2007 11:27am by bodhisattva